{"id":1489,"date":"2007-11-01T16:52:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T20:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:03:53","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:03:53","slug":"kampung-boy-and-town-boy-by-lat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kampung-boy-and-town-boy-by-lat\/","title":{"rendered":"Kampung Boy and Town Boy by Lat [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/11\/Kampung-Boy-and-Town-Boy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30186\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/11\/Kampung-Boy-and-Town-Boy.jpg\" alt=\"Kampung Boy and Town Boy\" width=\"784\" height=\"1163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/11\/Kampung-Boy-and-Town-Boy.jpg 784w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2007\/11\/Kampung-Boy-and-Town-Boy-539x800.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A delightful, joyful pair of titles about a young Muslim boy, Mat, growing up in a rural village (<em>kampung<\/em>) in 1960s Malaysia and his everyday joy of discovery and plain fun. <em>Town Boy <\/em>continues with urban adventures when Mat\u2019s family moves to the quickly industrializing town of Ipoh to follow Mat, who has already been at boarding school there for almost a year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/200711tbrfavorites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;<em>TBR<\/em>\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2007,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review, <\/em>November\/December 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2006 and 2007 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/kampung-and-town-boy.jpg\" alt=\"kampung-and-town-boy\" title=\"kampung-and-town-boy\" width=\"297\" height=\"99\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1490\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>A delightful, joyful pair of titles about a young Muslim boy, Mat, growing up in a rural village (<em>kampung<\/em>) in 1960s Malaysia and his everyday joy of discovery and plain fun. <em>Town Boy <\/em>continues with urban adventures when Mat\u2019s family moves to the quickly industrializing town of Ipoh to follow Mat, who has already been at boarding school there for almost a year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/200711tbrfavorites.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;<em>TBR<\/em>\u2019s Editors&#8217; Favorites of 2007,\u201d <em>The Bloomsbury Review, <\/em>November\/December 2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2006 and 2007 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,73,436,6535,136,31],"tags":[1968,6608,58,10,11,51,3310,3311,3312],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-malaysian","category-repost","category-southeast-asian","category-young-adult-readers","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-coming-of-age","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-identity","tag-kampung-boy","tag-lat","tag-town-boy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kampung Boy and Town Boy by Lat [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/kampung-boy-and-town-boy-by-lat\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kampung Boy and Town Boy by Lat [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A delightful, joyful pair of titles about a young Muslim boy, Mat, growing up in a rural village (kampung) in 1960s Malaysia and his everyday joy of discovery and plain fun. 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